Re: CREATE TRIGGER ... FOR EACH STATEMENT

From: Mischa Sandberg <ischamay(dot)andbergsay(at)activestateway(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CREATE TRIGGER ... FOR EACH STATEMENT
Date: 2004-11-05 03:27:44
Message-ID: QqCid.51505$VA5.25114@clgrps13
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Please ignore this, I just caught up with news in c.d.p.hackers

Mischa Sandberg wrote:
> I notice a dearth of description of the FOR EACH STATEMENT flavour of
> triggers, even though OLD_TABLE and NEW_TABLE are mentioned.
>
> After years of Sybase & MSSQL, being able to deal with the entire
> INSERTED/DELETED rowsets in a trigger, rather than nibbling away
> row by row, has been a great efficiency boost. In fact, the only I've
> resorted to FOR EACH ROW triggers is where joining OLD_TABLE and
> NEW_TABLE by primary key burned the CPU --- both pseudo-tables being
> very large in some updates, and perforce having no indexes ...
>
> I can see from src/backend/command/trigger.c that
> ExecASInsertTriggers() would have a hard time getting at the equivalent
> of OLD_TABLE and NEW_TABLE, ExecBSInsertTriggers even worse.
>
> Anyone else out there who feels this would be a significant
> enhancement?

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